Ivanovka 1943

[Womble67]

Hi there
          really enjoyed reading your battle report and a cracking table setup

Take care

Andy

[kev1964]

Excellent battlefield , great work and a good read,


kev

[Techno]

Great stuff Ray !
Cheers - Phil.

[lekw]

I thought they looked familiar. Love the pictures in that Wargame Illustrated article and refer to it often for inspiration. Got me painting an imperialist WSS army in 10mm. Great scenery.

[Hertsblue]

Oh, and nice setup too. Though, nice as they are, those types of houses do look a bit out of place on an Eastern Front game. Whereas the Timecast house is spot-on.

P.S. Leon does offer some excellent alternatives...

Yes, I know. It's all down to money and time. They will be replaced in due course. I still haven't found anyone who does a simple Russian church yet, however.   

[Ithoriel]

Leven Miniatures (http://www.levenminiatures.co.uk/) do some great 6mm Russian buildings (and lots of other nice 6mm scale stuff too) and have a note saying 10mm are planned. I live in hope.

Of course once Pendraken have their resin casting sorted out maybe they could be persuaded to do something like this



or even



but in 10mm.

[Fenton]

If you send an email to Leven miniatures he might help you out...hes produced some stuff for me in the past when I have asked...I also think he's  a member of this forum

[Fenton]

Don't Timecast do some Russian Churches?...

[Ithoriel]

Don't Timecast do some Russian Churches?...

In 6mm and 15mm but not 10mm - as far as I know.

I have some of their stuff, a little pricier than the Pendraken resin but very nice.

[Fenton]

Their Russian  Churches are in their Napoleonic range

[Ithoriel]

Why didn't I think to look in the Napoleonic section for a WW2 church :-)

More what I'd imagine a monastery might look like than a village church.



Looking at the Pendraken range in the light of the Timecast offerings, the Antietam church (which I ordered by mistake and Leon kindly swapped for the item I'd actually intended before sending the order) isn't far off what I'm now imagining for a Russian village church.

[OldenBUA]

Yes, I know. It's all down to money and time. They will be replaced in due course. I still haven't found anyone who does a simple Russian church yet, however.   

Fully understandable. I also find that having a lot of terrain for different periods and places also eats up storage space. Though 10mm has some advantages here.

Timecast also have a small Russian Church?



Though something like this would be very nice, ofcourse.

[Hertsblue]

Or even something like this:

http://www.richarddavies.co.uk/woodenchurches/images.html

Although these all seem to come from the far north of Russia.

[Ithoriel]

Timecast also have a small Russian Church?



This is why I thought of the Antietam Church



A little work on the bell-tower might do it.

For the Pendraken option - it's cheaper and I'm going to be ordering more Pendraken stuff sooner rather than later so postage will be wrapped up in that.

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[OldenBUA]

The picture I included is from one in the open air museum near Kiev, and was originally located in West-Ukraine (Carpathia) if I remember correctly. There were several others as well, but I didn't get to see them all (it's a pretty big place, and divided into several regions). Wooden churches still exist in their original location in many places, they're not limited to Northern Russia.

Pyrohiv museum